pasticher
French, verb\pas.ti.ʃe\
pasticher is spelled P-A-S-T-I-C-H-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 154,162nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pasticher is a French verb meaning “to imitate, pastiche” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Imiter, faire le pastiche, par exemple d’un artiste ou d’un écrivain”.
What does pasticher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to imitate, pastiche
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Imiter, faire le pastiche, par exemple d’un artiste ou d’un écrivain.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pasticher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pastichant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pastiché participle past
- pastiche first-person indicative present
- pastiches indicative present second-person
- pastichons first-person indicative plural
- pastichez indicative plural present
- pastichent indicative plural present
- pastichais first-person imperfect indicative
- pastichait imperfect indicative singular
- pastichions first-person imperfect indicative
- pastichiez imperfect indicative plural
- pastichaient imperfect indicative plural
- pastichai first-person historic indicative
- pastichas historic indicative past
- pasticha historic indicative past
- pastichâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pasticher?
- \pas.ti.ʃe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pasticher in French?
pasticher appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).